bang into
Idioms-
Crash noisily into, collide with, as in A clumsy fellow, Bill was always banging into furniture . [Early 1700s]
-
Strike heavily so as to drive in; also, persuade. For example, I've been banging nails into the siding all day , or I can't seem to bang it into his head that time is precious . The literal usage dates from the mid-1500s, the figurative from the second half of the 1800s. Also see bump into .
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Earth’s crust is broken into slabs called tectonic plates that, floating atop molten magma, bang into one another, buckle into mountain ranges, merge to create continents and separate to form seas.
From New York Times
Ko shot a 66, making a 30-foot bogey putt on the par-3 18th after driving over the green and watching her second bang into the bank and roll back to her feet.
From Seattle Times
About a $60 Chevrolet, a narrator in his collection “Jesus’ Son” comments: “It was the kind of thing you could bang into a phone pole with and nothing would happen at all.”
From New York Times
"Covid has brought grief and bereavement right bang into the middle of our public discussion," Dr Selman said.
From BBC
Even when you bang into them, there’s not much of an impact; you can’t go around knocking computer-controlled characters off the track.
From The Verge
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
